Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 3.2 times smaller than Malaysia.

Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 31.23% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~33.9 million people (33.5 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malaysia vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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